When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures, an increasingly unstable world, and the discovery of his wife's affair, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.

The story follows Garance, who’s a young actress but not a star. Brave, joyful and resilient, she manages things as best she can, finding fuel and unconditional comfort in alcohol. Garance subsequently changes her life and sets out on an eight-year journey of relocations, work, encounters, parties, anxieties, joyful moments and harsh blows… She embarks upon an intimate, friendship-focused and sexual revolution, but she continues to drink increasing amounts. Until death seems to loom...